French Parliament Chooses Ubuntu 174
atamyrat reminds us that last November it was announced that the French Parliament had decided to switch to Linux. At that time the distro had not been determined. It will be Ubuntu: "[T]wo companies, Linagora and Unilog, have been selected to provide the members of the Parliament as well as their assistants new computers containing free software. This will amount to 1,154 new computers running Ubuntu prior to the start of the next session which occurs in June 2007."
who ever thought... (Score:0, Insightful)
Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm not sure either should be used as an enterprise's first Linux desktop rollout; Windows admins aren't accustomed to their relatively furious rate of major releases.
Debian might have been a better choice, with its slow release cycle and decent security patch rollout rate.
Re:Perfect matchup (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Perfect matchup (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Quick French Lesson For Posters (Score:2, Insightful)
INVADE IRAQ? [Y/N] _
Re:Quick French Lesson For Posters (Score:5, Insightful)
In more recent times, their decsion to stay out of a disasterous war based on dubious evidence is looking better and better as time goes by.
Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... (Score:5, Insightful)
You have no clue how the Ubuntu releases work, do you? What you proposing exists since 06/2006, it is called Ubuntu 6.06 LTS [ubuntu.com]
Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Surprising choice (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Cool (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Cool (Score:3, Insightful)
It is hard not to contribute while using Linux in a large organization. They've got several companies doing support and services for them and that is going to include solving bugs. If nothing else, I imagine they'll be contributing bug fixes to the french language support, which is good it being such a common language in many third world countries where Linux can be a boon.
Re:Quick French Lesson For Posters (Score:2, Insightful)
It isn't as if the French have ever made a major correct decision...
INVADE IRAQ? [Y/N] _
While it's an interesting example, Iraq is ultimately a decision that doesn't have a "correct" answer...
The first George Bush attacked Iraq but left Saddam Hussein in power. He was widely criticized for not finishing the job.
Bill Clinton pretty much much ignored Iraq, even though he believed them to be pursuing nuclear and other WMD programs. He was widely criticized for doing nothing.
George W. Bush attacked Iraq and overthrew Saddam Hussein, but without Hussein's brutal yet stabilizing regime, the place plunged into chaos, with countless terror attacks and near civil war. Bush was widely criticized for this, even by many who supported the invasion when it was launched.
France were quite content to look the other way on Saddam Hussein's atrocities because they had a nice trade relationship with him. They were widely criticized for this "cheese eating surrender monkey" approach.
It seems like coming up with a "correct" way to deal with Iraq isn't so simple after all.
Or go for the national ? (Score:3, Insightful)
As opposed to the south-african origins of ubuntu, german origins of SuSE and american origins of RedHat
(Although I personally prefere SuSE's YaST to Mandriva's DrakConf. But public backing could boost sales of the distro and help finance more work on the config tools)
Re:Quick French Lesson For Posters (Score:2, Insightful)